IN your editorial promoting the Lisbon Treaty (August 19) you state: “our current crisis has proved we cannot survive without the European Central Bank”.

MY father suffered all the horrors described by the Ryan Commission report on institutional child abuse.

OWING to the endemic nature of TB in cattle, farmers are required in the public interest to endure annual herd tests together with random spot checks. Animals are immediately culled on the basis of suspicion alone, irrespective of past merit or service.